Douglas Preston
1) Two graves
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Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wife's kidnappers.
2) Old bones
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Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
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""FOR GOD'S SAKE, TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENED!" "VENGEANCE. VENGEANCE IS WHAT'S HAPPENED." It begins as a manhunt for Grace Ozmian, the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. At first, the NYPD assumes Grace, beautiful, reckless, and a regular feature of the local tabloids, has simply sped off on another wild adventure. But the case becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in...
4) White fire
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The arrival of Aloysius Pendergast in a small Colorado Rockies resort town almost coincides with the first sparks of an arsonist's deadly campaign. The FBI Special Agent has, however, a more immediate concern: His spunky, youthful assistant Corrie Swanson needs to be freed, having been jailed because she dug up a nineteenth century secret that could destroy local plans to make Roaring Fork a promising tourist destination.
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Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012 Preston joined a team of scientists using classified...
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"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his...
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"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
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As Constance finds her way back to New York City in the late 1800s to prevent the death of her siblings and stop serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, FBI Special Agent Pendergast desperately tries to find a way to reunite with her before it's too late.
Constance Greene has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s. She sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But Manhattan's...
11) Diablo Mesa
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New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
12) Crimson shore
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Special Agent Pendergast takes on a private case in Exmouth, Massachusetts - a quaint village on the coast north of Salem - to investigate the theft of a valuable wine cellar. He travels to the seaside town with his ward, Constance Green, where they quickly discover something far more sinister: a bricked-up niche in the wine cellar that holds the remains of a man, tortured and then entombed alive 150 years ago. But why?
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Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced bundle edition of the first three books in the Gideon Crew series: Gideon's Sword, Gideon's Corpse, and The Lost Island, by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child.
GIDEON'S SWORD:At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four,...
GIDEON'S SWORD:At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four,...
14) The ice limit
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The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At 4,000 tons, this treasure seems impossible to move.
New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite,
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Das finale Abenteuer von Gideon Crew.
Was tut man, wenn man weiß, dass man nur noch zwei Monate zu leben hat? Gideon Crew geht auf Schatzsuche, denn soeben hat ein jahrelanger Rechenprozess den mysteriösen Phaistos- Diskus entschlüsselt. Zusammen mit Manuel Garza bricht er in eine gottverlassene Wüstengegend an der Grenze zwischen Ägypten und dem Sudan auf. Bereits bei der abenteuerlichen Anreise verlieren sie ihre gesamte Ausrüstung und fast...
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Nur nicht den Kopf verlieren, heißt es für Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast und Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta: In New York treibt ein Serienkiller sein Unwesen, der die Köpfe seiner Opfer als Trophäen behält. Doch er hinterlässt kaum verwertbare Spuren, und die Ermordeten scheinen nichts gemeinsam zu haben - außer Geld, Macht und keinerlei Skrupel. Geht im Big Apple ein Rächer um? Eine Welle der Hysterie stürzt die ganze Stadt ins Chaos. Mittendrin...
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Mörderische Hitze in Miami
Eine äußerst morbide Mordserie wird zu einer ganz besonderen Herausforderung für Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast - denn dem erklärten Einzelgänger wird von seinem neuen Chef beim FBI ein Partner zur Seite gestellt. Den jungen Agent Coldmoon im Schlepptau, reist Pendergast nach Miami Beach, wo ein Serienkiller die Herzen ermordeter Frauen zusammen mit kryptischen Briefen auf Gräbern ablegt. Während es zwischen den...
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Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast reist zusammen mit seiner Vertrauten Constance Greene nach Exmouth, Massachusetts, um den Diebstahl einer wertvollen Weinsammlung aufzuklären. Im Weinkeller stößt er auf ein Verlies, in dem offenbar ein Mensch lebendig eingemauert wurde. Doch von dem Skelett fehlt - mit Ausnahme eines Fingerknochens - jede Spur. Bald schon erfährt Pendergast von der düsteren Vergangenheit der Stadt. Die Legende sagt, dass 1692,...
19) Gone Fishing
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Experience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!
Originally published in THRILLER (2006), edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.
In this tag team Thriller Short, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child feature New York City policeman Vincent D'Agosta, who becomes involved with the theft of an ancient Incan sacrificial knife. But before D'Agosta can apprehend the thieves, they meet an untimely death. The particularly...